This has got to be one of the weirdest Facebook posts of recent times.

The post was spotted on a Facebook buy/sell/swap group in Chorley, Lancashire.

Basically, the person mentioned put in a request last month to have a tattoo removed from his cousin. His cousin is apparently dead.

“I’m looking for a trainee medic to remove this [tattoo] from my recently departed cousin and stitch the skin onto my shoulder”.

Well…

screenshot of the status, which included a photo of the tattoo.

It probably is. Most people know that skin has to be living, that is, properly grafted onto other skin in order to live. Otherwise it’ll go a bit shrivelled and funny. No, these are not scientific terms.